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A dog has been hospitalized with a 106-degree fever after eating meth on a walk in North Hollywood.
Nikolas and Jenifer Dorhoutmees took their pup, Uni, for a walk around their neighborhood this week and it ended in an emergency trip to the vet.
Uni fell sick soon after sniffing around a local park.
“Drooling, diarrhea, all of it,” Jenifer told KTLA. “We decided to start bringing her back home. We checked her gums — her gums were white.”
The Australian cattle mix was rushed to the vet, where Jenifer insisted she get a drug test after remembering a similar story of a dog acting strange after eating meth.
open image in gallery A dog has been hospitalized with a 106-degree fever after eating meth on a walk in North Hollywood ( Google Earth )
Another North Hollywood resident, Karla Vicuña, and her husband rushed their dog, Atreyu, to the vet after the German Shepherd Husky mix accidentally ate meth.
“His heart rate was really elevated and he was panting a lot and couldn’t settle down,” she told KTLA last November. “He had a 103-degree fever.”
Uni’s drug test came back positive for methamphetamine and the vet staff helped bring her high temperature down.
“They said her temperature was 106 degrees, which, anything at 106 and above could cause brain damage, organ failure,” Jenifer said. “They were working for about 45 minutes to an hour trying to get her temperature to drop.”
open image in gallery The dog, Uni, fell sick soon after sniffing around a local park and later tested positive for methamphetamine ( AFP via Getty Images )
Both Atreyu and Uni survived their accidental meth exposure.
“If even one person is just a little bit more mindful and it saves their dog from being in this critical condition, this interview was more than enough,” Nikolas said.
ASPCA Poison Control staff helped more than 334,000 animals with exposures to toxic substances, plants and poisons last year, according to a March press release.
Over-the-counter medications remained the top animal toxin on the ASPCA Poison Control’s list in 2025. The easily accessible drugs accounted for 16.9 percent of all the exposures that poison control staff helped with.
Recreational drugs, including marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms, placed 10th on ASPCA’s list for the fourth year in a row.